The Amber Kinetics Inc. Mission

Amber Kinetics’ mission is to provide an emission-free, economical and safe energy storage solution – creating reliable and sustainable energy infrastructure around the world. Sustainability is in our DNA as a company. While we focus on delivering this mission globally, we also recognize the importance of evaluating our own product, supply chain and operations for opportunities to reduce our carbon footprint today and in the future.

Our flywheels consist of a simple yet powerful steel design and use readily and widely available materials. We do not rely on rare earth materials, resulting in a less carbon intense manufacturing process.

Our Global Operations

Amber Kinetics' head office and centre of expertise is located in Union City, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

From our main office we design our next generation models, performing mechanical, electronic and software engineering and testing our new designs. Our workshops assemble and test flywheels, flywheel management systems, and all balance of systems components.

Our 2 state of the art manufacturing facilities are located in Philippine Special Economic Zones benefiting from duty holidays and access to cutting edge eastern markets.

Our manufacturing plants are capable of producing 4000 units a year, operating a LEAN best practice and regular Kaizen activities.

Over 14 years of field and technical expertise with worldwide deployments achieving over one million hours of operational run time

2009
Amber Kinetics founded by Dr. Seth Sanders and Ed Chiao
2010
Amber Kinetics awarded US $3.6m grant from US Dept. of Energy
2012
Completion of 5kWh long-duration Flywheel Energy Storage System (FESS) prototype
2013
Completion of series A funding round
2014
25kWh long-duration FESS operational in Alameda, CA test facility, funded by US $1.8m grant from California Energy Commission
2015
Amber Kinetics signs agreement with Elemental Excelerator, based in Honolulu Hawaii
2016
Amber Kinetics signs supply agreements with Hawaiian Electric
2016
Completion of series B funding and Amber Kinetics awarded second grant from California Energy Commission for US $2.0m
2016
Two FESS units deployed with customers in Phillipines
2017
First commercial supply agreements with multiple global customers
2017
Amber Kinetics agrees two year cooperation agreement with Enel
2018
Mfg factory opens in Phillipines
2018
FESS projects go operational in USA (Hawaii and Massachusetts) and China (Tibet)
2019
FESS project operational with Taiwan Power
2020
Amber Kinetics signs first commercial supply agreement with customer in Australia
2021
Three FESS projects operational in Australia
2022
FESS project operational in Japan
2023
MOU with Philippine-Japan consortium to develop integrated solutions
2023
FESS fleet reaches 1 million hours of operations globally
2023
First mWh scale contract signed with Philippine based PAVI
Do you think you have what it takes to join the Amber Kinetics Team?

We are always on the look out for the best talent to help in all areas of our operation. Whether you're a mechanical engineer, know your way around a circuit board or a dab hand a getting those around you organised we'd love to hear from those who share our passions for sustainability and word class product quality.

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